by Robert Jensen

The whole piece is available on Alternet. Just how crass can the disaster capitalists get?

Yes that’s right: this catastrophe very likely created by climate change—a crisis born of the colossal regulatory failure to prevent corporations from treating the atmosphere as their open sewer—is just one more opportunity for more deregulation. And the fact that this storm has demonstrated that poor and working-class people are far more vulnerable to the climate crisis shows that this is clearly the right moment to strip those people of what few labor protections they have left, as well as to privatize the meager public services available to them. Most of all, when faced with an extraordinarily costly crisis born of corporate greed, hand out tax holidays to corporations.

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The Third Coast Activist Resource Center was created to help people in the Austin area
in their efforts at sustainable organizing. Our two main goals are (1) to distribute
educational resources and organize community events about U.S. policy around the world, and
(2) to strengthen the local activist network that is part of a national and international
movement for global justice.